Marjorie Prime Wins Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Feature .
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEJanuary 24, 2017Media Contact:Spencer Alcorn310.360.1981spencer alcorn@sundance.orgMarjorie Prime Wins Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Feature Film Prizeat 2017 Sundance Film FestivalWinners of Commissioning Grant, Episodic Storytelling Grant and Lab Fellowship RevealedPark City, Utah — At a reception during the 2017 Sundance Film Festival today, the beneficiaries of 72,500 ingrants from Sundance Institute and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation were revealed. Doron Weber, the VicePresident of Programs at the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, announced the winners: Michael Almereyda’s MarjoriePrime won the Feature Film Prize; Adam Benic’s Levittown (Sundance Institute Alfred P. Sloan FoundationEpisodic Storytelling Grant); Darcy Brislin and Dyana Winkler’s Bell (Sundance Institute Sloan LabFellowship); and Jamie Dawson, Howard Gertler and Likely Story’s Untitled Smallpox Eradication Project(Sundance Institute Sloan Commissioning Grant).The reception was preceded by an all-female panel on women in science and their onscreen portrayals (or lackthereof), with discussion of half a dozen films about women in science that were supported and championed bySloan, including the hit film Hidden Figures. These activities are part of the Sundance Institute Science-In-FilmInitiative, which is made possible by a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.“Support for these artists and their projects is more timely than ever,” said Keri Putnam, Executive Director ofSundance Institute, “Telling nuanced, human stories about science and technology is the most effective way todrive understanding of the forces that play such a major role in shaping our world today.”"We are thrilled to partner with Sundance for the 14th year in a row and award the 2017 Sloan Feature Film Prizeat Sundance to Michael Almereyda's Marjorie Prime," said Doron Weber, Vice President at the SloanFoundation. "With cool intelligence, wit and poignancy -- allied to a deft directorial hand and a stellar cast -Almereyda explores the emotional landscape of artificial intelligence and dramatizes the emerging impact ofintelligent machines on our most intimate human relationships. Sloan is also delighted to award three newscreenwriting grants at Sundance focusing on scientists and inventors who helped shape the modern world aspart of our "non-profit movie studio for science" and a national development pipeline which has resulted in 20feature films to date."Marjorie Prime: Winner of Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film PrizeMarjorie Prime has been awarded the 2017 Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize and will receive a 20,000 cashaward from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. The Prize is selected by a juryof film and science professionals and presented to outstanding feature films focusing on science or technology asa theme, or depicting a scientist, engineer or mathematician as a major character.
2Marjorie Prime / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Michael Almereyda) — In the near future—a time of artificialintelligence—86-year-old Marjorie has a handsome new companion who looks like her deceased husband and isprogrammed to feed the story of her life back to her. What would we remember, and what would we forget, ifgiven the chance? Cast: Jon Hamm, Geena Davis, Lois Smith, Tim Robbins.The jury presented the award to the film for its “imaginative and nuanced depiction of the evolving relationshipbetween humans and technology, and its moving dramatization of how intelligent machines can challenge ournotions of identity, memory and mortality”As previously announced, this year’s Alfred P. Sloan jury members are: Heather Berlin, Tracy Drain, NellGreenfieldboyce, Nicole Perlman and Jennifer Phang.Previous Alfred P. Sloan Prize Winners include: Ciro Guerra, Embrace of the Serpent (2015); Mike Cahill, IOrigins (2014); Andrew Bujalski, Computer Chess (2013); Jake Schreier and Christopher Ford, Robot & Frank(2012); Musa Syeed, Valley of Saints (2012); Mike Cahill and Brit Marling, Another Earth (2011); Diane Bell,Obselidia (2010); Max Mayer, Adam (2009); Alex Rivera, Sleep Dealer (2008); Shi-Zheng Chen, Dark Matter(2007); Andrucha Waddington and Elena Soarez, House of Sand (2006); Werner Herzog, Grizzly Man (2005);Shane Carruth, Primer (2004) and Marc Decena, Dopamine (2003). Several past winners have also beenawarded Jury Awards at the Festival, including the Grand Jury Prize for Primer, the Waldo Salt ScreenwritingAward for Sleep Dealer and the Excellence in Cinematography Award for Obselidia.To support the development of screenplays with science or technology, Sundance Institute and the Alfred P.Sloan Foundation provide three different opportunities for screenwriters through a Commissioning Grant, a LabFellowship and an Episodic Storytelling Grant. All provide a cash award to support further development of ascreenplay and to retain science advisors, along with overall creative and strategic feedback throughoutdevelopment.Sundance Institute / Sloan Commissioning GrantJamie Dawson, Howard Gertler and Likely Story will receive a 25,000 cash award from the Alfred P. SloanFoundation at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. Previous winner’s include Alex Rivera’s La Vida Robot andRobert Edwards’s American Prometheus.Untitled Smallpox Eradication Project (U.S.A.) / Jamie Dawson (Writer), Howard Gertler (Producer) andLikely StoryIn 1965, the World Health Organization orders a massive operation to eradicate the deadly smallpox virus fromthe human population. A ragtag band of very different personalities — from ashram hippies to tenaciousscientists to tactical bureaucrats — clash and collaborate as they fight to pull off the impossible.Jamie Dawson is a New York native and graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts Film Program. Hehas sold or optioned work to companies such as BCDF Pictures, Manage-ment/Dan Halsted, FormationEntertainment, and Permut Presentations. Projects in development include: The Rabbit Garden, hisBlack List script about controversial author Jerzy Kosinski (Being There) with producer David Permut anddirector Janusz Kaminski; and Swan Song, a television series based on the award-winning, cult classicnovel by Robert McCammon (Boy's Life).
3Oscar-nominated producer Howard Gertler’s credits include David France’s How to Survive a Plague,which premiered in competition at Sundance 2012 and was released by IFC Films/Sundance Selects; inaddition to the Academy Award nomination, the film collected New York Film Critics’ Circle, Peabody, IFPGotham, IDA and GLAAD Media Awards. He’s both an IFP/Gotham and Film Independent Spirit Awardwinner, the latter of which he won for producing John Cameron Mitchell’s Shortbus, which premiered inthe official selection in Cannes and was released worldwide. His upcoming films include John CameronMitchell’s adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s How to Talk to Girls at Parties, produced with See-Saw Films,Film4, Ingenious and Screen Yorkshire, to be released by A24 and Studiocanal UK in 2017.Likely Story is a bi-coastal production company founded by Anthony Bregman in 2006. AnthonyBregman’s past films include Foxcatcher, Indignation, Begin Again, Enough Said, the Academy Awardwinning Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Whole Truth, Sing Street, Friends With Money, OurIdiot Brother, Synecdoche, New York, Please Give, The Tao of Steve, Lovely & Amazing, Human Nature,The Extra Man, Thumbsucker, The Savages, The Ice Storm, The Brothers McMullen, Trick, DarlingCompanion and The Oranges. Upcoming releases include David Frankel's Collateral Beauty and JamesPonsoldt's The Circle.Sundance Institute / Sloan Lab FellowshipDarcy Brislin and Dyana Winkler will receive a 15,000 cash award from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation at thisyear’s Sundance Film Festival. Previous winners include Logan Kibbens’s Operator, Michael Almereyda’sExperimenter, and Rob Meyer’s A Birder's Guide to Everything.Bell (U.S.A.) / Darcy Brislin (Co-Writer) and Dyana Winkler (Co-Writer)At a pivotal point in history, hearing society began a golden age of communication with the advent of thetelephone, while deaf society plummeted into a dark age with the eradication of sign language and spread ofeugenics. At the helm of both trajectories stands a single man—Alexander Graham Bell. This project was therecipient of the 2016 Sundance Sloan Commissioning Grant.A Boston native, Darcy Brislin studied Art History and French at the University of St. Andrews inScotland. She received an MFA in screenwriting and directing from EICAR, the International Film Schoolof Paris, where she met co-writer Dyana Winkler. Currently based in Los Angeles, Brislin has writtenscreenplays with Sundance award-winning director Ondi Timoner and has a feature film in developmententitled Crown Chasers, with Maria Bello attached to produce.Dyana Winkler is a writer, director, producer based in Brooklyn. Her most recent film, a feature-lengthdocumentary entitled United Skates, is currently in post production and has received awards from theSundance Institute, New York State Council For the Arts, Fledgling Foundation, Film Independent,Chicken & Egg, IFP, and many more. Winkler met her writing partner, Darcy Brislin, in Paris, France,while completing their MFAs in screenwriting and directing, and discovered their shared passion forcasting new light on historical figures. They went on to write their first screenplay Turing, and haveteamed up for a second time with Bell, which was the recipient of the 2016 Sundance SloanCommissioning Grant.Sundance Institute / Sloan Episodic Storytelling Grant: LevittownAdam Benic will receive a 12,500 cash award from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation at this year’s Sundance FilmFestival.
4Levittown (U.S.A.) / Adam Benic (Writer, Creator)A one-hour drama series about visionary WWII veteran, Lieutenant William Levitt, who on his 40th birthday brokeground on the largest private construction project in American history. Alongside his attorney father and architectbrother, Will fights against an antiquated industry to fill the massive postwar housing need, thus building theworld’s first mass-produced suburb, Levittown, Long Island.Adam Benic is a Writers' Assistant on TNT's Animal Kingdom, and formerly a Showrunner’s Assistant onHulu's Shut Eye, CBS’s Extant, and a graduate of AFI’s MFA Screenwriting program. Adam hails fromLong Island, New York where he grew up in a Levitt home.The Sundance Film Festival The Sundance Film Festival has introduced global audiences to some of the most groundbreaking films of thepast three decades, including Boyhood, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Fruitvale Station, Whiplash, Brooklyn,Twenty Feet from Stardom, Life Itself, The Cove, The End of the Tour, Blackfish, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl,Super Size Me, Dope, Little Miss Sunshine, sex, lies, and videotape, Reservoir Dogs, Hedwig and the Angry Inch,An Inconvenient Truth, Precious and Napoleon Dynamite. The Festival is a program of the non-profit SundanceInstitute . 2017 Festival sponsors to date include: Presenting Sponsors – Acura, SundanceTV, ChaseSapphire , and Canada Goose; Leadership Sponsors – Adobe, AT&T, DIRECTV, Omnicom, Stella Artois andYouTube; Sustaining Sponsors – American Airlines, Canon U.S.A., Inc., Creators League Studio, Daydream,Francis Ford Coppola Winery, GEICO, The Hollywood Reporter, IMDb, Jaunt, Kickstarter, Oculus and theUniversity of Utah Health. Sundance Institute recognizes critical support from the Utah Governor's Office ofEconomic Development, and the State of Utah as Festival Host State. The support of these organizations helpsoffset the Festival’s costs and sustain the Institute's year-round programs for independent artists. Look for theOfficial Sponsor seal at their venues at the Festival. sundance.org/festivalAlfred P. Sloan FoundationThe New York based Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, founded in 1934, makes grants in science, technology, andeconomic performance. Sloan's program in Public Understanding of Science and Technology, directed by DoronWeber, supports books, radio, film, television, theater and new media to reach a wide, non-specialized audience.Sloan's Film Program encourages filmmakers to create more realistic and compelling stories about scientists,science and technology and to challenge existing stereotypes about scientists and engineers in the popularimagination. Over the past 15 years, Sloan has partnered with some of the top film schools in the country—including AFI, Carnegie Mellon, Columbia, NYU, UCLA and USC—and established annual awards inscreenwriting and film production, along with an annual best-of-the-best Student Grand Jury Prize administeredby the Tribeca Film Institute. The Foundation also supports screenplay development programs with the SundanceInstitute, Tribeca Film Institute, the San Francisco Film Society, the Black List, and Film Independent's ProducingLab and Fast Track program and has helped develop such film projects as Morten Tyldum's The Imitation Game,Mathew Brown's The Man Who Knew Infinity, Michael Almereyda's Experimenter, Rob Meyer's A Birder's Guideto Everything, Musa Syeed's Valley of Saints, and Andrew Bujalski's Computer Chess.The Foundation also has an active theater program and commissions about twenty science plays each year fromthe Ensemble Studio Theater and Manhattan Theatre Club, as well as supporting select productions across thecountry. Recent grants have supported Nick Payne's Incognito, Frank Basloe's Please Continue, Deborah ZoeLaufer's Informed Consent, Lucas Hnath's Isaac's Eye, and Anna Ziegler's Photograph 51, recently on London's
5West End.The Foundation's book program includes early stage support for Hidden Figures: The American Dream and theUntold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race, now a major motion picturethat was awarded the San Francisco Film Society Sloan Science in Cinema Prize in 2016.###
Jan 24, 2017 · Award for Sleep Dealer and the Excellence in Cinematography Award for Obselidia. To support the development of screenplays with science or technology, Sundance Institute and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation provide three different opportunities for screenwriters through a Commissioning Gr
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